I am fucking pissed off...I go away for 4 days and tell me little brother to just water my prospering plant..it was nice and healthy before I left and my brother sends me a pic of a wilting plant. It was vegging under 2 54 watt t5s. i told him to kick up the lights so it was under 4 t5 bulbs. Before I kill him, I just want to know if anyone has heard of a plant wilting from too much Fluorescent light or because you gave it more light? I'm completely convinced that he either over watered or underwatered smh.
Too much light?
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PersonalJesus
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I don't think it was the light either
Nitro1990
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or kick his ass then post some pics of that as well hahahah
These are twins plants mind you. The obviously healthy one with the other set of leaves coming out is how I left it. The other pic is after that fucker got through with my plan...I could kill him with my bare hands right now..look at how cooked that plant is...it looks drowned...and he tried to blame it on "too much light" like what the hell? Never in the history of plants have I ever heard of a such thing as too much light.
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AimAim
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My opinion plant #2 looks cooked. That little thing had next to nothing for a root system and can go from a perfect soil moisture to a damaging deficient soil moisture in just a few hours depending on temp, humidity, fans. Those peat pots you gotta keep an eye on. I use them all the time but they really do dry out pretty quick.
Hope you flooded it with water, it could well bounce back.
Don't be too hard on little bro. This is your project not his, maybe you did not give the best of instructions.
Hope you flooded it with water, it could well bounce back.
Don't be too hard on little bro. This is your project not his, maybe you did not give the best of instructions.
Bakatare666
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"too much" light IS possible, though with CFL's, you really gotta try hard, and t5's are a little easier, but cut him some slack man, if you kill him, how would you train him to help you next time?
bird mcbride
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I've used as many as eight four fout t5's over a cloning bin. It wasn't the light. The plant(s) went dry, simple. You should have made a bin to keep them in. They coulda' kept for a week without water in a cloning bin. Those small peat pots do dry out fast. Your fault!
Gave perfect instructions..he's watched me from day one and I even have a test pot full of soil so that you can tell the difference between When it needs to be watered and not. I won't be back until Sunday so I can't check on it. My main reason for the post was because he tried to tell me it started to wilt from the light. I needed to see if I was crazy because I never heard of too much light. Especially since it's a fluorescent light grow..216 watts of fluorescent light is just impossible to be too much light even if there is a such thing.
Papa Toke
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If you want something done right do it yourself? Lol. really does suck that it happened to you tho. I hope you go easy on the guy he probably feels really bad.
Lol like I said, he's watched me from day one..I've fucked up enough seeds on my own using peat pots..just wanted to know if too much light was the reason for the wilting..I did further research and I see that there is a such thing as too much light. But 216 watt fluorescent light? No fucking way light was the reason for its death.
dbkick
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a scientist told me this.....Do you have a light meter? 1000w lamps are too much for plants and causes photo-inhibition, stopping photosynthesis. At around 5500 footcandles photosynthesis stops, in nature. You can push up to 7000 indoors, but that's max, and still causing some plant shut down. If you back the light up to 2', then you lose 3/4 of the lamps energy, a 1000w light will only put out 250w of usable energy at 2 feet, its called inverse square law - its just the physics of light.